Running-gear.



. PATENTED MAY 30 s. s. BREES-E & 0. L. LAURANGE.

RUNNING GEAR."

APPLIGATION FILED JULY 12, 1904.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

No. 791,816. PATENTED MAY 30,1905.

, s. s. BREESE & c. L. LAURANGE.

RUNNING GEAR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 12 1904- 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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WITNESSES: I INVENTORS dIzey/flfireew 1 Cy/zaz'le-s lllau/razwgs ATTOR/V 8 general use.

, SYDNEY s, memos soUTnAa-rPToN, AND oHA RLEs LQL'A -BAYSHORE,' NEWYORK:

Patented May 30, 1 905.

PATENT? OFFICE. '1

, RUNNING-GEAR.

SPECIFICATION; forming part of'Letters Patent No. 791,316, dated. May30, 1905.-

, Application filedJu1y12 ,1904. SerialNo. 216,203.

To all whom itmay concern: I

- Be it known that we, SYDNEY S. Bnnnsn, re-

siding at Southampton, aHCl CHARLES L. LAU- RAN-OE, residingatlBayshore,'in the county of.

Suifolk and State of New York, citizens of the United States, haveinvented a new and Improved Running-Gear, of which the followingv is-afull, clear, and exact description.

. Our invention relates tomuhning-gearfor, vehiclesand' the like whichis especially ap plicable for autom I biles, but is capable of j Theobjects of theinvention'fareto provide a running-gear of the classmentioned which .will' be lighterandof greater strength than those nowknown and "also which will be flexible in all direct'ions,i'bu'twill'operat'e without vertically deflecting the body of the vehicle.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthisspecification, in which similar characters' of reference indicatecorresponding parts in"all the figures.

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Figure 1 isa'side view of the body of a veh cle,'sho w1ng a'preferredform of'our 1nvention. Fig.2 is a sectionalvieWon the line Fig. 3 isa'sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4-.is-a similar.sectional view of the rear part of the runninggear.

In the drawings, it represents theframe of a vehicle, which may. be ofany character whatever. Upon the frame are brackets I) and 6 whichsupport downwardly-projecting Struts 1) andb From the brackets b and Lextend radius'rods 0,0. These rods are pivotally attached to thebracketsand to thejfront and rear axles (Z (Z ofthe vehicle. Loosely swiveledupon the rear axle, as shown in Fig.

' 4, and firmly attached to the front axles are frames 6, which areprovided with spherical joints 0' forthe reception of the ends of thetwo radius-rods. One or each of these frames 0 is provided with aprojection 0 which is provided with a device a to prevent the axleturning over and tdallow for deflection from the plane of theradius-rods when one wheel crosses an obstruction. These frames alsohave projections'e, which may be integral therewith orpivoted to' them,as indicated in the drawings, and to which are pivoted tierods f. Therods f are provided with springs f, and these springs. are connected to.the struts'b and 5 springs maybe of any desired character and kind andmaybe located at any point inthe length of the tie-rodswithout-departingfrom the spirit of ourinvention. of thestruts-are connected'bycross-ties g to URAN E, or

The outer ends It will be "obvious that the i the brackets 67) or totheframe of, the vehicle, as indicated in Fig. 1. The elements I), (or 11f, f, ahd g' taken together constitute the-struts and ties ofa truss,and it'will be apparent that they operate in connection with theradius-rode to form a flexible and yet firm support for. the body of thevehicle and that oITaccount of the location and construction of thevarious parts the whole device will be very light and strong, andconsequently can be applied to vehicles of greater size and weight thanmany of the devices now in use. It will also be seen that when passingover an obstruction the springs will tend to yield without deflectingthe .body of the vehicle vertically and thatin the construction shown inFig. 4 the frames will befr'ee to swing on the axles. Supported alsofrom eachof the frames 0 is a hearing it, in which is swi-veled a guidelffora curved guide-rod Z. Y One of these guide-rods is placed at eachend of the vehicle, and they are secured to the vehicle by means ofbrackets is I." and k k or in any other desired or-convenient manner. Itwill be obvious that the location of these guiderods is not material,but that they should be located at such points as will be most advanetageous.

Z is a leather strap for preventing excessive rebound.

m is a chain-tightening device which is pivoted to the bracket 7) and toa projection a from the frame e. It will be understood that when thechain-tightening device is used the shape of'c'ertain of the partswillhave to be correspondingly altered, as shown at the rear axle inFigs. Land 4:, and; thesemoditiofour invention.

. v cations will obviously comewithin the'scopc desire to secure byLetters connecting the axle and frame.

3. A running-gear comprising a radius-rod pivotally attached .to theframe of a vehicle and to an axle thereof, a truss comprising a strutrigidly mounted on the frame, a tie joining the strut with the ing thestrut with the frame.

4:- The combination of. a vehicle-frame and an axle therefor, with aradius-rod pivotally attached to the frame and to the axle, and a trusscomprising a strut 1 mounted on the frame, and ties for the strut, saidties including a yielding member.

' 5. The combination of a vehicle-frame, and an axle therefor, with aradius-rod pivotally attached to the frame and to the axle, a strutmounted on the frame, a tie-rod connecting the strut with the frame, atie-rod connecting the axle with the strut, anda'spring attached to saidlast-named tie-rod.

6. A running-gear comprising a rod pivotally connected with the frameofv a vehicle and with an axle thereof, a guiderod, and a guide for saidrod mounted on the axle of the vehicle. I e

7 A running-gear comprising a radius-rod pivotally attached to the frameof a vehicle and to an axle thereof, a curved guide-rod connected to theframe, and a guide for said rod mounted on the axle of the vehicle.

axle, and a tie join-.

straight line between the centers of the wheels of the vehicle, and achain-tightening device connected to said frame.

10. A running-gear, comprisinga rod pivotally attached to the frame ofthe vehicle and to an axle thereof, a'strut mounted on the frame, aconnection between the strut and the axle, and a chain-tightening devicemounted between the strut and the axle for varying the distance betweenthem.

11'. The combination ofa vehicle-frame, and a pair of axles therefor,with a rod pivotally attached to each axle and to the frame, a pair ofstruts mounted on the frame, a tie-rod connecting each strut with theframe, a rod connecting each axle with one of the struts, a springattached to each of the last-mentioned rods, and a chain-tighteningdevice mounted between one of the struts and the axle to which it isconnected, for varying the distance between the strut and axle.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SYDNEY S. BREESE. CHARLES L. LAURANGE.

Witnesses:

MARGARET C. KANE, ARTHUR B. GALKINs.

